OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Natural Hazards Review is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Review of Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan by Kerry Smith University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA; 2024; ISBN 97	36
Protection or Peril of Following the Crowd in a Pandemic-Concurrent Flood Evacuation	35
How Predisaster Planning Helped Rural West Virginia Overcome Barriers to Long-Term Flood Recovery	31
Machine Learning for Predicting Prehurricane Structural Damage	25
Review of Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies , edited by Claire Connolly Knox and Brittany “Brie” HauptRoutledg	24
Probabilistic Regional Liquefaction Hazard and Risk Analysis: A Case Study of Residential Buildings in Alameda, California	23
Promoting Spatial Coordination in Flood Buyouts in the United States: Four Strategies and Four Challenges from the Economics of Land Preservation Literature	23
Investigation of the Causal Relationships among Different Barrier Categories to Timely Posthurricane Recovery	23
Navigating Federal Disaster Assistance Eligibility and Special Accommodations: The Case of Hurricane Harvey	22
Collaborative Relationship Modeling and Analysis of Natech Emergency Response Organizations Based on Stochastic Petri Net	22
The Legacy of Dennis S. Mileti and the Future of Public Alert and Warning Research	22
Reliability Assessment of Road Network to Precipitation Based on Historical Recorded Disruptions	21
Developing a Global Method for Normalizing Economic Loss from Natural Disasters	19
Assessment of Soil-Building Resonant Effect for DMDP Area in Bangladesh	19
Effect of Anti-Price Gouging Law on Postdisaster Recovery Speed: Evidence from Reconstruction in Virginia and Maryland after Hurricane Sandy	19
Incorporating Flood Loss Estimation into Urban Planning and Development Scenarios	19
Investigations within World Heritage Monument Zones of Kathmandu after the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake	18
Community Perspectives on Simulation and Data Needs for the Study of Natural Hazard Impacts and Recovery	18
Voice for the Voiceless: Amplifying Animal Issues in Disaster Management and Media	17
Detecting and Geolocating City-Scale Soft-Story Buildings by Deep Machine Learning for Urban Seismic Resilience	17
Impact of Annual Maximum Wind Speed in Mixed Wind Climates on Wind Hazard for Mainland China	16
Emergency Restorability of Underground Engineering Environment after Disasters by Utilizing Prefabrication and Assembly Technology	16
Seismic Loss Estimation Using Experimental Fragility and Vulnerability Functions: Case Study of Buzau County, Romania	16
Review of Temporary Shelter Planning Models: Global Trends and Evidence from Ongoing Practices	15
Effect of Government Intervention and Market Incentives on Farmer Organic Fertilizer Application Behavior and Agricultural Emission Reduction	14

Community-Level Seismic Risk and Retrofitting Portfolios in Developing Countries: Cost-Effective Assessment Framework and Application	14
Examining Rural–Urban Vulnerability Inequality in Extreme Weather-Related Power Outages: Case of Tropical Storm Isaias	14
Enhancing Disaster Risk Management through Understanding Risk Perception: The Role of Identity in Rural Communities	13
Scheduling Inspection and Restoration Action in Postdisaster Critical Lifeline Recovery through Stochastic Optimization with Endogenous Uncertainty	13
Hurricane Risk of Solar Generation in the United States	13
Legitimizing Postcrisis Policy Change: Crisis-Framing Strategies by Public Leaders in China	12
Climate Resilient Slope Stability Improvement Using Vetiver on a Test Levee	12
Building Classification Using Random Forest to Develop a Geodatabase for Probabilistic Hazard Information	12
Investigating the Impacts of Built Environment Knowledge on Hurricane Evacuation Intentions in a College Student Sample: A Test of the Power of Information	12
Integrating Place Attachment into Housing Recovery Simulations to Estimate Population Losses	12
Extreme Flood Events in India and Attribution to Climate Change: An Analysis of News Media Coverage from 2013–2019 during Bihar Floods	12
Earthquake Performance Analysis and Retrofitting of an Existing School Building by Different Methods	12
Hurricane Risk Perception among Older Adults: A Case Study of Sarasota County, Florida	12
Movement Morphology and Mechanical Characteristics of Small Landslide Debris Flow	11
Impact of Climate Variability on the Feeding Glaciers of Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes in the Jhelum Basin of Kashmir Himalaya, India	11
Impacts of 2020 Beirut Explosion on Port Infrastructure and Nearby Buildings	11
Do Perverse Insurance Incentives Encourage Coastal Vulnerability?	11
Resilience Evaluation Method for Emergency Management of Infrastructure Construction Projects during Extreme Disasters	11
Using Social Media for Economic Disaster Evaluation: A Systematic Literature Review and Real Case Application	11
Improved Regional Earthquake Magnitude Scaling Relations for the Indian Subcontinent	11
Hazard Assessment and Modeling of Erosion and Sea Level Rise under Global Climate Change Conditions for Coastal City Management	10
Efficacy of Damage Data Integration: A Comparative Analysis of Four Major Earthquakes	10
Rapid Perception of Public Opinion in Emergency Events through Social Media	10
Detecting Episodes of Mildly Explosive Behavior in the Hurricane Resiliency Index to Examine Community Resilience to Hurricanes	10
Flood Hazard Analysis Based on Copula Connect Function	10
Relationship between Coastal Hazard Countermeasures and Community Resilience in the Tōhoku Region of Japan Following the 2011 Tsunami	10
Spatial Flood Forecasting Modeling under Lack of Data Using RS and Optimized Support Vector Machine: A Case Study of the Zahedan Watershed	10
Growing Peri-Urban Developments Downstream of Farm Dams: Exploring How to Best Manage Increasing Dam Safety and Cumulative Flood Risks	10
Soil Bioengineering Using Vetiver for Climate-Adaptive Slope Repair: Review	10
Determinants of Departure Timing for Hurricane Matthew and Anticipated Consistency in Future Evacuation Departures	9
Household Displacement and Return in Disasters: A Review	9
Statistical Assessment of Geological and Geomorphological Factors on Building Damages Caused by the February 6, 2023 Earthquakes in the Amanos Region of Türkiye	9
Capacity-Building to Support Safer Housing through Appropriate Hurricane Strap Use	9
Social Media Support Mechanisms for Organizational Adaptation in Governmental Response to Extreme Natural Hazards	9
Communicating Hazard Location through Text-and-Map in Earthquake Early Warnings: A Mixed Methods Study	9
Discussion of “Revisiting Basic Wind Speed of Metro Cities of India”	9
Earthquake Early Warning Riskwork: ShakeAlert’s Operation with Institutionalized Uncertainties	9
Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Enhance Community-Based Disaster Resilience: Taiwan Mountain Area	9
Power of Place: How Place Satisfaction Impacts Disaster Recovery in Communities Facing Environmental Disruptions	9
Seismic Stability Analysis of Caissons under Earthquake Forces Considering 3D Log-Spiral Failure Surface	9
Broadening the Study of Warning Message Effectiveness	8
Review of Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures by Katy BörnerMIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 02142; 2021; ISBN 9780262045957; 214 pp.; $39.95.	8
Exploring Household Preparedness for Volcanic Eruptions of Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, Hawai‘i	8
Predicting Peak Discharge of Outburst Floods from Moraine-Dammed Glacial Lakes	8
Climate Adaptation Matrix Concept for Multidisciplinary Community Resilience in a Changing Climate	8
Assessing the Damage Prevented by a Proposed Flood Barrier in Scheveningen’s Port under Current and Future Conditions	8
Dynamic Optimization for Emergency Supplies Distribution with Priority of Postdisaster Shelters	8
Governors and Hazard Mitigation Grants Management: Observations of State and Local Officials	8
Fostering Community Resilience from the Grassroots: Individual Factors Influencing Citizen Coproduction in Disasters	7
Assessing the Impacts of Land Use, Land Cover, and Climate Change on the Hydrological Regime of a Humid Tropical Basin	7

Machine Learning–Based Systems for Early Warning of Rainfall-Induced Landslide	7
Changes in Social Capital during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence from Singapore and Switzerland	7
“And Then COVID-19 Happened”: Impacts of the Pandemic on Hazard and Disaster Researchers	7
Rising to the Climate Challenge: Better Understanding the Rural Rainstorm Flooding Disaster Risk Management Using Practical Insights from China	7
A Social Welfare–Based Infrastructure Resilience Assessment Framework: Toward Equitable Resilience for Infrastructure Development	7
Seismic Stability and Deformation Analysis of a South India Hill Slope by Finite Elements	7
Fiscal Implications of Disasters and the Managed Retreat Thereafter: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy	7
Challenges to the Fire Service–Centric Emergency Management System	7
Random Finite-Element Analysis of Slope Considering Strength Anisotropy and Spatial Variability of Soil	7
Hazus Hurricane Wind Model for the US Caribbean Territories: Hazard Modeling and Development of Residential Damage Functions	7
Geohazard Sensitivity Evaluation in Xinning, Hunan, China, Using Random Forest, Artificial Neural Network, and Logistic Regression Algorithms	7
Modeling Temporal Accessibility of an Urban Road Network during an Extreme Pluvial Flood Event	7
Strengthening Infrastructure Resilience to Hurricanes by Modeling Transportation and Electric Power Network Interdependencies	7
Reviewers	7
Science-Brokers or Sense-Givers: How Experts Participate in Public Crisis Communication on Social Media	6
Study of Elevation Role in Representing Sociodemographic Status and Susceptibility to Flooding in Birmingham, Alabama	6
Relocation and Social Support during Large-Scale Evacuations	6
Data-Driven Modeling of Hurricane Evacuee’s Individual Decision-Making for Enhanced Hurricane Evacuation Planning: Florida Case Study in the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
The Dimensions of Individual Support for Coastal Hazard Mitigation: Analysis of a Survey of Upper Texas Coast Residents	6
The Possibility of Real-Time and Long-Term Predictions for Geomagnetic Storms Using Neural Networks	6
Modifying Social Vulnerability Indices to Complement Physical Exposure Risk Analyses	6
Two-Stage Resilience Evaluation for Healthcare Networks from the Adaptability and Recoverability Perspective	6
Characterizing the Nature of Social Vulnerability to Disasters in Inner-City Households: Case of Jiaxing, China	6
The Impact of Wind Characteristics on the Spatial Distribution of Damage to the Built Environment during Wildfire Events: The 2022 Marshall Fire	6
Spatiality in Hazard Models for European Windstorms	6
Effects of Climate Change and Urbanization on Bridge Flood Vulnerability: A Regional Assessment for Harris County, Texas	6
Tsunami Vulnerability Assessment Using GIS and AHP Technique for Southern Coastal Region of India	6
Only Who Can Prevent Forest Fires? Causes of a Subset of Wildfires in California, 2010–2021	6
Probabilistic Hazard Assessment of Bridges under Multihazard Actions during the Life-Cycle Period	6